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    Chapter 20 Chapter 20 “Really want to swim?”…

    “Really want to swim?” Ghost Spider rarely hesitated. He was originally a landlubber and couldn’t understand swimming in a regular swimming pool, let alone swimming in the sky.

    “Yes.” Anna Ding said concisely, “Other players have already tried it. Kukai can also swim, and swimming can effectively delay degeneration. This is the only sport we can achieve, and we must swim.”

    After saying that, she plunged into the sky.

    As she said, she did not fall due to weightlessness. Instead, she swam among the clouds as nimbly as a fish, feeling extremely comfortable.

    “Alas.” Black Spider gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, and jumped in.

    His movements were clumsy, like dumplings thrown into the pot randomly, and he smashed them down hard.

    It is true that the black spider cannot swim, so it can only crawl around instinctively. Not to mention it looks funny, and it almost falls into the deep space several times. It took a while to figure out some tricks.

    But swimming was indeed effective, and Black Spider clearly felt that the growing gills in his neck had stopped.

    After swimming hard for a while, a figure appeared next to Black Spider. Looking out of the corner of his eye, he saw that it was Yu Ying, whom he had just met.

    Yu Ying had also learned to swim very easily. He had not yet recovered from the shock, his face was blue, and he looked in very bad condition.

    “Are you okay?” Black Spider took the initiative to talk to him.

    Yu Ying was a little frightened and said quickly: “It’s okay, it’s okay.”

    “Yeah.” Black Spider was determined to help the newcomers relieve their tension and racked his brains to find a topic. Before he could figure it out, a shadow suddenly appeared above them, blocking out the sun.

    Yu Ying’s eyes widened and he exclaimed.

    Black Spider raised his head and saw a huge fish that could not be reached out of thin air above his head. It looked like a bighead carp with algae attached to its surface, but its size was several times that of a normal fish.

    The big fish’s eyes looked down emotionlessly, with two panicked faces printed on the gray pupils.

    “Run! Run!” Black Spider roared, and he began to “swim” in embarrassment.

    But it’s still too late.

    The big fish opened its bloody mouth and began to swallow.

    The fish appeared so suddenly that the two people who were not expecting it had no way to avoid it. They were carried by the wind and rolled towards the big fish.

    This fish was big enough, and it could at least leave a whole body. Black Spider thought desperately that he was now just like a small fish or shrimp in the ocean.

    His hands and feet struggled in the air in vain, and he turned himself into a turntable to no avail. He could only watch as he was gradually buried in the belly of the fish.

    Suddenly, a fishhook cut through the space and hung down. It just hooked the corner of the big fish’s mouth.

    Without waiting for the big fish to react, the fishhook was suddenly retracted, and the big fish was suddenly pulled away and disappeared into the empty sea.

    Without the big fish, the thrilling suction suddenly disappeared, and the black spider almost fell from the sky. Fortunately, Yu Ying beside him pulled him up.

    ·

    “Wow,” Zhang Yu happily raised the fishing rod, with a plastic fish hooked at the end of the fishing line, “I caught it, and it’s a big fish.”

    There was a black sealed box in front of Zhang Yu, with only a gap at the top that could allow people to hang a fishing line in for fishing.

    The opening was so small that it was impossible to see what was going on inside from the outside. He had to fish blindly, and he didn’t even know how he fished it.

    Zhang Yu’s mobile phone was on the workstation next to him. There was a video call on it, and the person connected on the other end was a ghost painter.

    Zhang Yuzheng was originally wondering why no one came to work. Before he could figure out the reason, the ghost painter made a video call.

    The ghost painter told him that his colleagues were busy doing field work recently and there might not be anyone in the company, so he asked Zhang Yu not to worry. He then said that he had left a toy that Zhang Yu could take out and play with when he was bored, without delaying his work.

    Zhang Yu followed the ghost painter’s instructions and found a box. There was also a small set of fishing gear hanging outside the box, complete with fishing rods and nets, which could simulate fishing by a fisherman.

    “Is it fun?” The ghost painter’s voice came from the mobile phone.

    “It’s fun!” Zhang Yu was very happy, “What kind of toy is this? I’ve never seen it before.”

    “Fishing blind box.”

    Zhang Yu touched the caught fish. Although the material was made of plastic, the workmanship was very exquisite and lifelike. Even the scales on the fish’s back could be moved, giving people the illusion that it could breathe.

    Has the toy industry evolved to this extent now?Zhang Yu was shocked.

    “When will you come back?” Zhang Yu asked.

    The ghost painter in the video did not answer, but just looked at Zhang Yu thoughtfully.

    Zhang Yu: “?”

    The ghost painter finally remembered to speak: “I’ll be back in a few days.”

    “That’s good. This morning I was wondering if the company had run away due to debt, and I was worried that the creditors would come knocking on my door.”

    The ghost painter was funny: “No.”

    “That’s good.” Zhang Yu raised the small fishing rod in his hand, “We’ll play together when you come back.”

    “Why are you acting like a child?” The ghost painter chuckled, “I still have something to do here, so I’ll hang up now and you can have fun by yourself.”

    Zhang Yu nodded. Before he could say goodbye, the ghost painter had cut off the call.

    Are you very busy? Why do you feel a little anxious?Zhang Yu thought casually and sat back at his work station to start working. There were already many red dots on the taskbar.

    [Player: It’s me again. We are still in the empty sea we talked about yesterday. Exercise can indeed delay degeneration, but now there is something new… someone is fishing in the sky!!!】

    [Player: Even if the fisherman marks fishing spots everywhere on the ground for wild fishing, why are he still fishing in the sky?】

    Zhang Yu, who had just experienced fishing and understood the taste of fish marrow, felt inexplicably guilty.

    [Customer service Xiao Zhang: Fishing is not allowed?】

    [Player: Fishing is okay, but we are also in the empty sea. What if we are caught? It would be annoying to degenerate into fish, but now we have to worry about being fished away.】

    [Customer service Xiao Zhang: Maybe you can stop eating the bait.】

    [Player: It would be nice if it had bait – just a hook suddenly appeared and dangled, fast and hard. It doesn’t matter what it hooks. There is no time to hide. There is no fishing ethics at all.】

    [Customer service Xiao Zhang: Ah, that’s really hateful!】

    [Player: So great customer service, please give your loyal believers some guidance, what should we do now?】

    [Customer service Xiao Zhang: Find someone who is tough-talking.】

    [Player:?】

    [Customer service Xiao Zhang: Fight hard and let the fisherman know that there are fish outside the fish.】

    [Player: Huh?This… um… okay, I understand… No, I understand!Thanks to customer service for the advice.】

    [Customer service Xiao Zhang: Kiss, you’re welcome [Rose]]

    After replying to the message, Zhang Yu felt itchy and took out his fishing blind box again.

    Another swing.

    hey-hey.

    Fishing, of course, only tastes good if you touch the fish.

    As soon as the rod went down, the pole quickly started to tremble.

    Hooked!

    It seems to be a big product, quite heavy.

    Zhang Yu hurriedly reeled in the line, but the fish that bit the hook this time was so strong that not only could he not pull it up, but the fishing rod was almost dragged into the blind box by it.

    “Ahhhh!” Zhang Yu stepped on the wall and the blind box, using his strength to wrestle with the fish in the blind box. The two sides were fighting in a neck-and-neck fight, and no one could do anything to the other.

    Is this still a fish? Zhang Yu was sweating like rain. He felt like he was in a tug of war with a group of people.

    I used to play tug-of-war in a local team-building club where I worked. There was a leader on the opposite team, and all the team members on their side tacitly let it go, but he was the only one who worked hard to do his best.

    That was pretty much the feeling at the time.

    For a moment, Zhang Yu suspected that he was about to be dragged into the blind box.

    In the past, Zhang Yu had seen videos of people being dragged into the water by fish after failing to catch fish, but those all happened in open water. Wasn’t he just playing with a children’s toy? Why was it so difficult?

    In my wild thoughts, with a “bang” sound, the fishing line split into two and broke completely.

    Zhang Yu: “!”

    The broken fishing line and fishhook returned to the blind box together with the surprisingly strong fish.

    Holding the remaining fishing line, Zhang Yu was still in a daze. Is this really just a toy?

    It doesn’t look big at all. What kind of mechanism is there inside that can handle such a job?

    Zhang Yu returned to his workstation in confusion.

    [Player: Praise the customer service, we succeeded!There happened to be someone who was regressing towards the alligator gar, and his mouth was as solid as a rock!It was so hard that the fishing line was broken by it.】

    What is an alligator gar and what is a rock solid? Zhang Yu wondered in his heart and copied and pasted out of habit, preparing to go back and check.

    I don’t know why, but when he looks at the player’s words, he always feels a subtle sense of familiarity.

    [Customer service Xiao Zhang: OK OK [thumbs up]]

    [Player: Thanks to customer service, customer service can do anything.】

    [Customer service Xiao Zhang: Alas, I’m just a waste, I’m very good at it, but my strength is too weak.】

    [Player:?】

    [Customer service Xiao Zhang: I couldn’t even catch anything. I pulled hard for a long time but couldn’t pull it up. In the end, the fishing line broke.】

    [Player: Fishing?Aren’t you in the office? How are you fishing?】

    [Customer service Xiao Zhang: It’s a fishing toy.】

    ·

    “A fishing toy?” Anna Ding bit her finger subconsciously, “Is it possible that it is actually a prop?”

    “This prop is closely related to the dark dungeon. You can use fishing to fish out the fish or players inside. This may be our way to leave the dungeon.”

    The players looked at each other in shock. After learning that the customer service was playing a fishing game, they chased Zhang Yu and asked many details, from the hook and line to what the fish caught looked like.

    Everything is right, exactly.

    It was easy for everyone to come to similar conclusions, but this guess was too unbelievable. They had never seen such a heaven-defying prop, so few people dared to say it.

    After a while, someone started to speak.

    “I think it’s worth a try. The Ghost Painter is different from us. He can get the best props. Since he gave it to me, the prop is really so powerful that it can connect to the dark copy.”

    “Why does the ghost painter do this?”

    “Who knows, isn’t he always like this, unpredictable.”

    “But the customer service said that the fish caught out were plastic… Is it better to make plastic in the safe house than to make fish in the dungeon?”

    “After leaving the dark dungeon, there is hope that even plastic can be restored. Everyone who has lived until now should have seen many players who have come back from the dead.”

    The players talked a lot, but no one could convince anyone.

    After quarreling for a long time, Black Spider coughed: “Stop quarreling, I will open the way, and I will try.”

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